«Among the worlds, in the star's twinkling / I repeat the name of one Star... / Not because I have loved Her, / But because with others I pine away. And if doubt weighs heavily on me, / I entreat an answer from Her alone... / Not because brightness comes from Her, / But because with Her ...»
«There is a love like smoke: if cramped, / It stupefies; give it freedom and, and / It will be gone... To be like / Smoke, but eternally youthful... There is a love like a shadow: by day / It lies at your feet, it heeds you: / At night it embraces you soundlessly... / To be as a shadow, ...»
«We are two trunks the thunder set alight / Two pinewood torches in the midnight blazing; / We are two meteors through the darkness flying / The twin-barbed arrow of one fate. We are two steeds whose beats are held / By one hand and whom one spur is goading; / We are two eyes a single view...»
«It’s rainy and dark, and a wind / Is ruffling the chilly pond. / Life will stay dead till next spring, / And the garden is looking so wan. / The house is draughty and lonely, / And too dark to paint in this gloaming... You were here with me yesterday, / But already...»